stomach pump
English
Noun
stomach pump (plural stomach pumps)
- (medicine) A syringe with a flexible tube for withdrawing fluids from the stomach, or injecting them into it.
- 1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC:
- "If we can get his bolster-cover round his arms and then 'phone up a stomach-pump, we'll give the old dear the supper of his life."
- (medicine, by extension) A gastric lavage.